Bulk Material Delivery in Malden, IL

If your French drain or downspout run is not moving water, the stone you put in it is the first thing to check. Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Malden, IL, and the answer is usually washed stone with no fines in it.

On the flat ground across Bureau County, water sits because it has nowhere to go. A clean stone trench gives it somewhere.

For a driveway or pad, that base course is CA-6, also called road base, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Materials for Malden Projects

Washed stone is what a drainage job calls for. Fines clog a trench, so the stone you bed a pipe in has to be clean, with every particle washed free of dust.

CA-7, also called #57 stone or 1 inch clean stone, is the size for bedding under pipe and lining a French drain.

CA-11, the 3/4 inch clean washed stone, does the same work at a smaller size. It beds drainage trenches, drywells and downspout runs, and it goes under concrete flatwork.

For the tight spots, CA-16 chips are 3/8 inch washed stone. They bed permeable pavers and drain around tanks.

Lime screenings, which are the crushed limestone fines, bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

When the job is a surface rather than a drain, the choices change. CA-6 is the compacted base for a driveway, a parking pad, a shed floor or a trench backfill.

Torpedo sand, the coarse washed sand, mixes concrete and levels a bed. Mason sand is the finer clean sand for mortar and paver joints.

On the decorative side, Natural Pea Gravel and river gravel round out a bed or a dry creek bed, and large river rock handles downspout splash areas and heavier borders. Riprap armors a bank or a culvert outlet.

Topsoil and garden soil cover the planting work, and fill dirt raises grade before a CA-6 base goes down.

Delivery to Malden and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load at your site in one pile.

Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you order.

Delivery covers Malden and the rest of Bureau County, including Princeton, Spring Valley, Walnut, Ladd and Wyanet. If your site is on a county road or a long private drive, the truck still needs a spot it can reach and tip.

Ground and Conditions in Malden

The working season here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little shorter than downstate. Frozen ground stops compaction, so a base course placed in winter will not lock up the way it should.

Across the Northern Illinois till plains and Rock River country, the ground is tight till and loamy prairie soil over dolomite, and the water table sits high on the flat ground. Snowmelt and spring rain on frozen ground push water across the surface instead of into it.

That is the case for a clean stone drainage layer rather than a fines-bearing one. Frost action is heavy in unbound base and shallow footings, and the local building department sets the footing depth for your permit.

Order Bulk Gravel and Stone in Malden

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, topsoil and mulch across Malden and Bureau County. Order online by the ton or yard, pick your delivery date at checkout, and the truck tips the load on site.

Start with the material your job calls for and place the order when you are ready.